Blog of Mehrdad Piroozram

Amazon finances S3 User

This is a cool modell to setup a portfolio. Smart Move! Amazon is doing a good job again!

Animoto one of the second wave widget start-ups in us got financing by amazon. They are S3 users as well. This an other modell to setup tech portfolios and technical due dilligence will be delivered by the investors ;-)

This is an other major new way within the investor space, after bay partner´s facebook only fund about 100$mil and KPBC 100$mil for iPhone Widgets this year.

Would love to know the size of the "S3 Fund"!

via mashable:

Animoto: When Using Amazon Web Services Gets You Funding

Btw: I am lead angel investor of animoto´s  european competitor, the german imageloop (via iSteps Widget Ventures).

n8
Mehrdad Piroozram

my posts about that topic:

July 11, 2007:  Fund per eco-system! Why not?

Red Herring Malta 2008

Red Herring (8)
Originally uploaded by Matt Colebourne

Right back from Malta, after a quick day trip joinig RED HERRING 100.

Had some quick chats with view friends an companies and saw a good widget company as well :-)

Gratulations to our friends Ramin and John blauarbeit/portal united, SSP, webjam, ...

Cheers

Mehrdad Piroozram

Carnival 2.0

Carneval 2.0 was a fun event in cologne. We (Daniel and me) invited a few good web 2.0 people to come to cologne Carneval for two days. We had lots of fun.

Lunch with the future :-)

Back from the holidays and had lots of sun and the new energy needs to be moved in action.

Today I had lunch with two young students of one of the upcoming German private universities. We talked about the future of web and the rule of different market players and about their new business idea. Was wondering, why in Germany mainly WHU or EBS students move to the web 2.0 business. We decided to change that now :-)

Hasso Plattner Ventures - 3rd Forum on Entrepreneurship

Today I visited the Hasso Plattner Venture Event in Potsdam. Getting the different of old IT and new IT-Generations together on a place and being impressed about some good personalities like Björn Behrendt from hiogi. Just take a look yourself:

http://www.hp-ventures.com/apage/12719.php

next gen. start-up structure...

Just spent my evening at the cologne beer garden with an ex-ceo of a German listed company.
He is really smart and wants to move big stories. I think he is right that in the future there will be good serial entrepreneurs who will set up good new stories together in europe. This evening was good for me as reflect to next generation of european Internet start-ups with German roots. Cheers :-)

cya
Mehrdad

Speedseed: The business-case for business-cases

http://www.speedseed.de/

Just met Oliver Zeisberger for dinner in our good Cologne and he gave me a presentation about his latest project speedseed (I like the name). Knowing Oliver´s skills since pre Web 1.0 from my first Company, he is one of the most innovative people here in our area, which is good and bad for him in the same time

The idea is like Y Combinator and Techstars in US and fills up a deal pipe for potential investor through a structured qualification and setup process in the seed stage (only internet companies). The benefiters are first time founders (focus on university founders) which need access in a higher competing market than ever before.
The idea is also good for business developers, which need quick and structured deal flow.

Just wondering if the German market is far enough to get such a focused structure integrated in the internet M&A space. But the direction is definitively right. I don´t believe that the first time founders can handle a setup of a company from stretch to post IPO within few years as I did during web 1.0 . The market players are more focused and far more experienced by the influence of serial entrepreneurs and experienced finance investors.

Telling the truth, he had some strategic questions, which challenge me as well.

Over all it looks for me like often in the last view month:
“Good idea but right timing is key?

N8 Mehrdad

BTW: Here is one of the challenges, where your feedback is welcome. 10 Speedseeds will start tomorrow. How many exits in two or three years, do you think we gonna get of the speedseeds?